ALEXANDER THE GREAT!!! THE TRUTH AND THE FILTHY LIES!!!

 

A SUMMARY OF TRUTH CONCERNING THE GREAT ALEXANDER, INSPIRED BY EMMANOUELA SCHOINOPLOKAKI:

“THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE GREAT ALEXANDER (AFTER EXTENSIVE RESEARCH!)”

The Great Alexander, the greatest general of antiquity, was born on 20/21 July 356 B.C. in Pella. His parents were King Philip II of Macedonia and Princess Olympias of Epirus. He was instructed by the foremost philosopher Aristotle, who instilled in him a love for Greek education, science, and Homer. He ascended the throne of Macedonia in 336 B.C., at the age of twenty, following the assassination of his father.

In 334 B.C. he crossed the Hellespont and embarked upon his great campaign. He achieved historic victories at the Granicus, at Issus, and at Gaugamela, overthrowing the Mythical Persian Empire. The Great Alexander was proclaimed Pharaoh of Egypt in 332 B.C. at Memphis, where he was received as a liberator from the Persian yoke. The title of Pharaoh represented divine authority and secured absolute legitimisation among the Egyptian people, rendering him sovereign both politically and religiously.

The relationship of Alexander the Great with the wife and daughter of Darius III was defined by absolute respect. Following the Battle of Issus (333 BC), Alexander demonstrated unprecedented restraint in protecting Darius's wife,Stateira I. He refused to even look at her to avoid tarnishing her reputation, allowed her to retain her royal honors, and provided her with a magnificent funeral upon her premature death. He showed the same absolute respect toward Darius's daughter, Stateira II, whom he placed under his protection and ensured received an Ellenik education. Their relationship ultimately culminated in an official marriage at Susa in 324 BC.

His conquests extended as far as the banks of the River Indus. Along his march he founded numerous cities, the most famous of which were the Alexandrias, and contributed to the dissemination of Greek civilisation in the East, inaugurating the Hellenistic Period. Thanks to this expansion, the Greek language became the international language of the age. This enabled the Apostle Paul and the Evangelists to spread the message of Christianity throughout the then-known world.

He died in Babylon in June 323 B.C., before he could complete his plans for new campaigns. The cause of his death remains to this day a subject of investigation, under strange and even suspicious circumstances — particularly when one takes into account the manner in which his wives, his children, and his mother met their ends.

His wife Roxane and his son Alexander IV were murdered on the orders of Cassander in 310 B.C. at Amphipolis, where they had been imprisoned by Glaucias. Heracles, Alexander’s son by his other wife Barsine, was murdered by the general Polyperchon after Cassander’s bribery. Statira (daughter of Darius) and her sister Drypetis, his second wife, were murdered immediately after Alexander’s death in Babylon. His mother Olympias was put to death in 316 B.C. after a trial, again on the orders of Cassander, who had besieged her at Pydna. His sister Cleopatra was assassinated at Sardis in 308 B.C. on the orders of Antigonus.

Below are recorded historical events that extol his ethos, integrity, purity, self-sacrifice, humility, valour, and greatness:

When the Greek general Philoxenus offered Alexander as a gift two very beautiful youths (Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Alexander-Caesar), the king became so enraged that he asked his friend what shameful act he had ever seen in him that he should propose such dishonourable things to him. He became even more furious at the insult and demanded punishment.

Alexander maintained a very strict moral code regarding his conduct towards prisoners and slaves. According to Plutarch, when he learned that two young Macedonians, Damon and Timotheus, had raped the wives of certain mercenaries, he became beside himself with rage and demanded their immediate punishment. He sent a letter to the general Parmenion demanding that, if their guilt were proven, they should be executed like wild beasts that harm human beings. He emphasised that he himself had not even looked upon the wife of Darius, the beautiful one, nor had he permitted her beauty to be discussed in his presence.

In the Jewish Antiquities (Book 11), Josephus describes Alexander’s visit to Jerusalem after the successful sieges of Tyre and Gaza. The High Priest Jaddua met him; Alexander prostrated himself before the Name of God, entered the Temple of Solomon, and offered sacrifice according to the instructions of the Jewish priests. The priests showed him the book of the prophet Daniel, which prophesied that a Greek (symbolised as a goat in the vision) would destroy the Mythical Persian Empire. Alexander rejoiced, believing that the prophecy referred to himself and his conquests.

The Jews knew full well that he was the one who had been prophesied by the Prophet Daniel in the Old Testament (Daniel, chapter 10). For this precise reason they received him with full awareness that he was the chosen instrument of the Lord, a chosen vessel, since the Lord together with the Archangel Michael fought at Alexander’s side. When he arrived in Jerusalem, the entire Sanhedrin was present and the High Priests prostrated themselves before him — yes, they prostrated themselves — because they knew from their prophet Daniel, whom they particularly revered, that Alexander was not an ordinary king and general, but one chosen by the God in whom they believed. For this reason they permitted him, although he was ethnically Greek and believed in the One God as a spiritual descendant of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to offer sacrifice in the Temple of the Law. Today no one should dare tell contemporary Jews that their ancestors prostrated themselves before Alexander, since their Law explicitly forbade prostration before a human being, especially one who was ethnically Greek. All this occurred through the ineffable Economy of God: Alexander’s campaign was not accidental or ordinary, but a divine campaign with Alexander as its instrument, so that the way might be opened for the dissemination of the word of the Holy Gospel throughout the then-known world some 356 years later.

Apart from the Life of Saint Andrew the Fool for Christ, the story of Alexander who pursued and imprisoned the “unclean nations” (Gog and Magog) behind inaccessible gates rests upon a vast tradition. The principal sources include the Revelation of Methodius (Pseudo-Methodius), which describes how Alexander enclosed the unclean nations in the northern mountains; the Islamic Qur’an (Surah Al-Kahf), where Alexander is identified with the mysterious “Dhul-Qarnayn” (the Two-Horned One), who with God’s help builds an impregnable wall of iron and copper to enclose Gog and Magog; the Syriac Romance of Alexander (“Legend of Alexander”), which narrates the construction of the gates at the Caspian Gates; the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, who mentions iron gates that Alexander built in a pass of the Caucasus (usually located at Darial) to keep away wild hordes; and various later Greek and Latin medieval chroniclers who incorporated the legend, connecting the Macedonian general with the prophecy of Ezekiel concerning the nations of Gog and Magog.

The epic siege of the Mallians, where Alexander was the first to charge the enemy walls and fought alone until he was gravely wounded, is described in detail in the works of the ancient historians. The principal sources are Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander (Book VI), which recounts how he scaled the walls of the city of the Mallians, broke the ladder, killed the defenders, and fought alone from above while his companions could not reach him until he received an arrow in the chest; the History of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus (Book IX); and Plutarch’s Parallel Lives: Alexander. This is one of the most emblematic and moving stories of leadership. It captures his ability to inspire and to identify himself completely with his soldiers under the most extreme conditions.

During the catastrophic return from India in the autumn of 325 B.C., while crossing the barren and waterless desert of Gedrosia (present-day Balochistan), some soldiers found water in a small spring and collected it in a helmet to offer it to their king. Instead of drinking it himself, Alexander poured it out onto the sand before the astonished eyes of his soldiers. According to Arrian, he told them that it was impossible for him to drink while his men suffered from thirst, and that if there was not enough for all, no one should drink. This gesture was not merely symbolic self-sacrifice. It had an immediate effect on the army. The fact that the King refused to quench his thirst and endured the same hardships as the ordinary soldiers raised their morale and gave them the courage and strength to continue the march through the desert.

According to tradition, before he died the Great Alexander requested three final wishes from his generals: that his physicians should carry his body, to show that even the best healers are powerless before death; that his treasure should be scattered along the road, so that the world might understand that earthly wealth remains on earth; and that his hands should hang outside the coffin, as a symbol that he came into this world with empty hands and would leave it with empty hands, taking nothing with him.

He also met Diogenes the great philosopher: The historic encounter between the Great Alexander and the Cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope (who lived in a pithos) took place in Corinth in 336 B.C. It constitutes something far more than a simple apparent contrast between a worldly ruler and a “Cynic” philosopher of the pre-Christian era with absolute ascetic freedom and freedom from care. Alexander, the most powerful sovereign of his time, approached the poor, sun-tanned philosopher and announced that he would grant him any favour he desired. Alexander: “Ask of me whatever you wish.” Diogenes: “Do not deprive me of that which you cannot give me… if you wish, stand a little to the side, for you are depriving me of the sun.” Instead of being offended by the philosopher’s wise reply, Alexander admired Diogenes’ absolute fearlessness, humility, and lack of covetousness, and replied: “If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.”

Alexander cannot be explained… and his work is a universal historical phenomenon. His full name reveals his true identity: Great Alexander. He must not be called “Greatest,” for Greatest is God alone.

After the unforeseen murder of Cleitus — who had saved Alexander’s life in the Battle of the Granicus — the king fell into deep despair and a suicidal, catatonic state, even attempting to turn his weapon against himself before being restrained by his bodyguards. Crushed by the weight of his actions, the conqueror subjected himself to a three-day complete fast and abstinence in repentance — lying upon the earth without food and without any water at all — following, as is recorded, the example of the biblical Prophet-King David. He would have died in his self-imposed isolation had his devoted companions and the philosopher Anaxarchus not intervened actively to break his strike and tend to him until he recovered. This profound event is explicitly verified by primary historical sources — including Arrian, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius Rufus — and was later interpreted by Byzantine chroniclers through the theological comparison with the absolute repentance of King David.

He took yet another spiritual step, considering himself as nothing, as zero, as unworthy. He drew even closer to the acceptance and the sense of the presence and the omnipotence of God, exactly as the Prophet-King David expressed this marvellous experience and revelation in his sacred and unsurpassable Psalms. Alexander is, before Christ, one of our fathers; he belongs to the choir of the Righteous Greeks together with Socrates and Plato. He is among the first who received the preaching of the Honourable Forerunner John in Hades and followed Christ in the Resurrection and into the Kingdom of Heaven. And how could he not be, since around 536 B.C. the Prophet Daniel wrote of him (Daniel, chapter 10, Old Testament): “And again one having the appearance of a man touched me and strengthened me. And he said: ‘O man greatly beloved, fear not, be strong and of good courage’… And he said: ‘Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the prince of the kingdom of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come…’”. Although he was ethnically Greek, he believed in the One God, who chose him as a vessel in His ineffable Economy and His philanthropy. For this reason he was called Great.

Many have characterised him as a chauvinist, compared him with Genghis Khan, or portrayed him as a sodomite (the absolute falsehood and blasphemy of Oliver Stone). Those who did so were precisely the followers of falsehood, of darkness, and of deceit. No one delved into the historical truths. No one understood that after the death of Cleitus he advanced spiritually, considering himself as nothing. Modern historians and directors have completely distorted his image because they cannot digest it. Yet Alexander is, before Christ, our father, a chosen instrument of the Divine plan who prepared the way for the dissemination of the Gospel. And this is the only truth about the life and character of the Great Alexander.